Films Preferred by Older and Younger Voters

The lists below contain films that older voters like more than younger voters do and the reverse. The lists are ranked by the "% difference," which is the absolute value of the difference between the percent of ballots from older voters on which a film appeared and the percent of ballots from younger voters on which a film appeared. For example, if a film appeared on 9.74% of ballots from older voters and 5.31% of ballots from younger voters, the % difference would be 4.43%.

For these tables, older voters are those born before 1960. Younger voters were born in 1960 or later.

Films Liked by Older Voters More than by Younger Voters

Rank

Title

Year

Director

% Difference

1

Citizen Kane

1941

Orson Welles

9.50%

2

Sunrise

1927

F. W. Murnau

7.30%

3

Searchers, The

1956

John Ford

7.26%

4

Règle du jeu, La

1939

Jean Renoir

6.82%

5

Passion of Joan of Arc

1927

Carl Theodor Dreyer

5.72%

6

Some Like It Hot

1959

Billy Wilder

5.19%

7

Seventh Seal, The

1957

Ingmar Bergman

5.17%

8

grande illusion, La

1937

Jean Renoir

4.67%

9

Seven Samurai

1954

Akira Kurosawa

4.23%

10

Ugetsu Monogatari

1953

Mizoguchi Kenji

4.15%

11

Lawrence of Arabia

1962

David Lean

3.65%

12

Man with a Movie Camera

1929

Dziga Vertov

3.64%

13

Pierrot le Fou

1965

Jean-Luc Godard

3.63%

14

strada, La

1954

Federico Fellini

3.14%

15

Singin' in the Rain

1951

Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly

3.13%

16

General, The

1926

Buster Keaton

3.12%

=

Viridiana

1961

Luis Buñuel

3.12%

18

Vertigo

1958

Alfred Hitchcock

2.84%

19

Andrei Rublev

1966

Andrei Tarkovsky

2.68%

20

Breathless

1960

Jean-Luc Godard

2.67%

21

Atalante, L'

1934

Jean Vigo

2.66%

22

Avventura, L'

1960

Michelangelo Antonioni

2.65%

=

dolce vita, La

1960

Federico Fellini

2.65%

24

Psycho

1960

Alfred Hitchcock

2.63%

=

Touch of Evil

1958

Orson Welles

2.63%

26

M

1931

Fritz Lang

2.62%

27

Gertrud

1964

Carl Theodor Dreyer

2.61%

28

Mouchette

1966

Robert Bresson

2.60%

=

Wild Bunch, The

1969

Sam Peckinpah

2.60%

30

Leopard, The

1963

Luchino Visconti

2.59%

31

enfants du paradis, Les

1945

Marcel Carné

2.58%

=

Germany Year Zero

1948

Roberto Rossellini

2.58%

33

Battleship Potemkin

1925

Sergei M Eisenstein

2.12%

34

Pather Panchali

1955

Satyajit Ray

2.10%

35

Playtime

1967

Jacques Tati

2.09%

36

Magnificent Ambersons, The

1942

Orson Welles

2.08%

=

Sansho Dayu

1954

Mizoguchi Kenji

2.08%

38

Casablanca

1942

Michael Curtiz

2.07%

=

Dr. Strangelove

1963

Stanley Kubrick

2.07%

=

Intolerance

1916

D.W. Griffith

2.07%

=

Travelling Players, The

1975

Theodoros Angelopoulos

2.07%

=

Two or Three Things I Know About Her…

1967

Jean-Luc Godard

2.07%

43

Day of Wrath

1943

Carl Theodor Dreyer

2.06%

=

Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The

1972

Luis Buñuel

2.06%

=

Ivan the Terrible

1945

Sergei M Eisenstein

2.06%

=

Madame de…

1953

Max Ophüls

2.06%

=

Orphée

1950

Jean Cocteau

2.06%

=

Shop Around the Corner, The

1940

Ernst Lubitsch

2.06%

=

Wavelength

1967

Michael Snow

2.06%

50

Au Hasard Balthazar

1966

Robert Bresson

1.66%

51

eclisse, L'

1962

Michelangelo Antonioni

1.60%

=

Rear Window

1954

Alfred Hitchcock

1.60%

53

Hour of the Wolf

1968

Ingmar Bergman

1.59%

54

Hiroshima Mon Amour

1959

Alain Resnais

1.58%

=

Ikiru

1952

Akira Kurosawa

1.58%

56

Gold Rush, The

1925

Charles Chaplin

1.57%

=

Letter From an Unknown Woman

1948

Max Ophüls

1.57%

=

Tree of Life, The

2010

Terrence Malick

1.57%

59

Chimes at Midnight

1966

Orson Welles

1.56%

=

Imitation of Life

1959

Douglas Sirk

1.56%

=

Pandora's Box

1928

G W Pabst

1.56%

=

Rome Open City

1945

Roberto Rossellini

1.56%

=

Turin Horse, The

2011

Béla Tarr

1.56%

64

Bad Sleep Well, The

1960

Akira Kurosawa

1.55%

=

Ben-Hur

1959

William Wyler

1.55%

=

Big Sleep, The

1946

Howard Hawks

1.55%

=

Crime of Monsieur Lange, The

1935

Jean Renoir

1.55%

=

Deuxième Souffle, Le

1966

Jean-Pierre Melville

1.55%

=

Dr Mabuse, The Gambler

1922

Fritz Lang

1.55%

=

Flaming Creatures

1963

Jack Smith

1.55%

=

Flower of My Secret, The

1995

Pedro Almodóvar

1.55%

=

Gone with the Wind

1939

Victor Fleming

1.55%

=

Lady Eve, The

1941

Preston Sturges

1.55%

=

Listen to Britain

1942

Humphrey Jennings, Stewart McAllister

1.55%

=

Maltese Falcon, The

1941

John Huston

1.55%

=

Misfits, The

1961

John Huston

1.55%

=

Paisà

1946

Roberto Rossellini

1.55%

=

Plaisir, Le

1951

Max Ophüls

1.55%

=

Puppetmaster, The

1993

Hsiao-hsien Hou

1.55%

=

Red Shoes, The

1948

Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

1.55%

=

Scarlet Empress, The

1934

Josef von Sternberg

1.55%

=

Sound of Music, The

1965

Robert Wise

1.55%

83

Battle of Algiers, The

1966

Gillo Pontecorvo

1.10%

84

Shoah

1985

Claude Lanzmann

1.09%

85

Night of the Hunter, The

1955

Charles Laughton

1.08%

86

Amarcord

1972

Federico Fellini

1.07%

=

Late Spring

1949

Ozu Yasujirô

1.07%

88

Jules et Jim

1962

François Truffaut

1.06%

89

Ashes and Diamonds

1958

Andrzej Wajda

1.05%

=

Celine and Julie Go Boating

1974

Jacques Rivette

1.05%

=

Chinatown

1974

Roman Polanski

1.05%

=

My Darling Clementine

1946

John Ford

1.05%

=

River, The

1951

Jean Renoir

1.05%

=

Trouble in Paradise

1932

Ernst Lubitsch

1.05%

95

Berlin Alexanderplatz

1980

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

1.04%

=

Bringing Up Baby

1938

Howard Hawks

1.04%

=

Great Dictator, The

1940

Charles Chaplin

1.04%

=

In a Year of 13 Moons

1978

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

1.04%

=

Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The

1943

Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

1.04%

=

Life of Oharu, The

1952

Mizoguchi Kenji

1.04%

=

Lola

1961

Jacques Demy

1.04%

=

Music Room, The

1958

Satyajit Ray

1.04%

=

Nazarín

1958

Luis Buñuel

1.04%

=

On The Waterfront

1954

Elia Kazan

1.04%

=

Ran

1985

Akira Kurosawa

1.04%

=

Sherlock Jr

1924

Buster Keaton

1.04%

=

Stagecoach

1939

John Ford

1.04%

=

Where is My Friend's House?

1989

Abbas Kiarostami

1.04%

109

1900

1976

Bernardo Bertolucci

1.03%

=

Aleksandr Nevski

1938

Sergei M Eisenstein

1.03%

=

All About Eve

1950

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

1.03%

=

Anatomy of a Murder

1959

Otto Preminger

1.03%

=

Army of Shadows

1969

Jean-Pierre Melville

1.03%

=

Awful Truth, The

1937

Leo McCarey

1.03%

=

Bambi

1942

David Hand

1.03%

=

Barren Lives

1963

Nelson Pereira dos Santos

1.03%

=

Battle of Chile, The

1975

Patricio Guzmán

1.03%

=

Bête Humaine, La

1938

Jean Renoir

1.03%

=

Big Deal on Madonna Street

1958

Mario Monicelli

1.03%

=

Big Heat, The

1953

Fritz Lang

1.03%

=

Black Girl

1965

Ousmane Sembene

1.03%

=

Cabinet of Dr Caligari, The

1919

Robert Wiene

1.03%

=

Charulata

1964

Satyajit Ray

1.03%

=

Chelsea Girls

1966

Andy Warhol, Paul Morrissey

1.03%

=

Cloud-Capped Star, The

1960

Ritwik Ghatak

1.03%

=

Cul-de-Sac

1966

Roman Polanski

1.03%

=

Dekalog

1988

Krzysztof Kieslowski

1.03%

=

Don't Look Back

1967

D.A. Pennebaker

1.03%

=

Earth

1930

Aleksandr Dovzhenko

1.03%

=

East of Eden

1955

Elia Kazan

1.03%

=

Germany Year 90 Nine Zero

1991

Jean-Luc Godard

1.03%

=

Gleaners & I, The

2000

Agnès Varda

1.03%

=

Goodbye, Dragon Inn

2003

Tsai Ming Liang

1.03%

=

In a Lonely Place

1950

Nicholas Ray

1.03%

=

Killing, The

1956

Stanley Kubrick

1.03%

=

Mandabi

1968

Ousmane Sembene

1.03%

=

Mon Oncle

1958

Jacques Tati

1.03%

=

Not Reconciled

1965

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet

1.03%

=

Obscure Object of Desire, That

1977

Luis Buñuel

1.03%

=

Our Hospitality

1923

Buster Keaton/John G. Blystone

1.03%

=

Quiet Man, The

1952

John Ford

1.03%

=

Russian Ark

2002

Aleksandr Sokurov

1.03%

=

Salvatore Giuliano

1962

Francesco Rosi

1.03%

=

Shadows

1959

John Cassavetes

1.03%

=

Shanghai Express

1932

Josef von Sternberg

1.03%

=

Shock Corridor

1963

Samuel Fuller

1.03%

=

Steamboat Bill, Jr.

1928

Buster Keaton

1.03%

=

Sweet Smell of Success

1957

Alexander Mackendrick

1.03%

=

Tree of Wooden Clogs, The

1978

Ermano Olmi

1.03%

=

Viva l'Amour

1994

Tsai Ming Liang

1.03%

=

Wagon Master

1950

John Ford

1.03%

=

Wanda

1970

Barbara Loden

1.03%

=

Wind Will Carry Us, The

1999

Abbas Kiarostami

1.03%

=

You, The Living

2007

Roy Andersson

1.03%

=

Z

1968

Costa-Gavras

1.03%

=

Zabriskie Point

1970

Michelangelo Antonioni

1.03%

Films Liked by Younger Voters More than by Older Voters

Rank

Title

Year

Director

% Difference

1

Taxi Driver

1976

Martin Scorsese

12.09%

2

Modern Times

1936

Charles Chaplin

5.02%

3

Apocalypse Now

1979

Francis Ford Coppola

4.44%

4

Come And See

1985

Elem Klimov

4.02%

5

Apartment, The

1960

Billy Wilder

4.01%

6

Beau Travail

1998

Claire Denis

3.54%

=

Manhattan

1979

Woody Allen

3.54%

8

There Will Be Blood

2007

Paul Thomas Anderson

3.02%

9

Close-Up

1989

Abbas Kiarostami

3.00%

10

Videodrome

1983

David Cronenberg

2.53%

11

Badlands

1973

Terrence Malick

2.51%

=

Blade Runner

1982

Ridley Scott

2.51%

=

Husbands

1970

John Cassavetes

2.51%

14

Maman et la putain, La

1973

Jean Eustache

2.50%

=

Sátántangó

1994

Béla Tarr

2.50%

16

Blue Velvet

1986

David Lynch

2.49%

17

400 Blows, The

1959

François Truffaut

2.44%

18

Eraserhead

1976

David Lynch

2.02%

=

Graduate, The

1967

Mike Nichols

2.02%

=

Last Picture Show, The

1971

Peter Bogdanovich

2.02%

=

My Neighbour Totoro

1988

Miyazaki Hayao

2.02%

=

Once Upon a Time in America

1983

Sergio Leone

2.02%

=

Tropical Malady

2004

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

2.02%

=

Underground

1995

Emir Kusturica

2.02%

=

Veronika Voss

1982

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

2.02%

26

Annie Hall

1977

Woody Allen

2.01%

=

Don't Look Now

1973

Nicolas Roeg

2.01%

=

Jaws

1975

Steven Spielberg

2.01%

=

Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom

1975

Pier Paolo Pasolini

2.01%

30

Faces

1968

John Cassavetes

2.00%

=

Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The

1966

Sergio Leone

2.00%

=

Woman Under the Influence, A

1974

John Cassavetes

2.00%

33

Aguirre, Wrath of God

1972

Werner Herzog

1.97%

34

Man Escaped, A

1956

Robert Bresson

1.96%

35

Barry Lyndon

1975

Stanley Kubrick

1.94%

36

Raging Bull

1980

Martin Scorsese

1.91%

37

Godfather: Part I, The

1972

Francis Ford Coppola

1.90%

38

Mirror

1974

Andrei Tarkovsky

1.88%

39

2001: A Space Odyssey

1968

Stanley Kubrick

1.83%

40

4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days

2007

Cristian Mungiu

1.52%

=

Alien

1979

Ridley Scott

1.52%

=

Black Narcissus

1947

Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

1.52%

=

Blissfully Yours

2002

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

1.52%

=

Brazil

1985

Terry Gilliam

1.52%

=

Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid

1969

George Roy Hill

1.52%

=

City of God

2002

Fernando Meirelles

1.52%

=

Code Unknown

2000

Michael Haneke

1.52%

=

Do The Right Thing

1989

Spike Lee

1.52%

=

Dogville

2003

Lars von Trier

1.52%

=

Down By Law

1986

Jim Jarmusch

1.52%

=

Flowers of St Francis, The

1950

Roberto Rossellini

1.52%

=

Funny Games

1997

Michael Haneke

1.52%

=

Green Ray, The

1986

Eric Rohmer

1.52%

=

Holy Mountain, The

1973

Alejandro Jodorowsky

1.52%

=

humanité, L'

1999

Bruno Dumont

1.52%

=

Innocents, The

1961

Jack Clayton

1.52%

=

Ivan's Childhood

1962

Andrei Tarkovsky

1.52%

=

Marnie

1964

Alfred Hitchcock

1.52%

=

Network

1976

Sidney Lumet

1.52%

=

One and a Two, A

1999

Edward Yang

1.52%

=

Outer Space

2002

Peter Tscherkassky

1.52%

=

Picnic At Hanging Rock

1975

Peter Weir

1.52%

=

Separation, A

2011

Asghar Farhadi

1.52%

=

Solaris

1972

Andrei Tarkovsky

1.52%

=

Star Wars

1977

George Lucas

1.52%

=

Story of Qiu Ju, The

1992

Zhang Yimou

1.52%

=

Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The

1974

Tobe Hooper

1.52%

=

This Is Spinal Tap

1983

Rob Reiner

1.52%

=

Wages of Fear, The

1953

Henri-Georges Clouzot

1.52%

=

Werckmeister Harmonies, The

2000

Béla Tarr

1.52%

=

Wings of Desire

1987

Wim Wenders

1.52%

72

Big Lebowski, The

1998

Joel & Ethan Coen

1.50%

=

Days of Heaven

1978

Terrence Malick

1.50%

=

Hidden

2004

Michael Haneke

1.50%

=

notte, La

1961

Michelangelo Antonioni

1.50%

=

Opening Night

1977

John Cassavetes

1.50%

=

Sans Soleil

1982

Chris Marker

1.50%

=

Spirit of the Beehive, The

1973

Víctor Erice

1.50%

=

Woman of the Dunes

1964

Teshigahara Hiroshi

1.50%

80

Deer Hunter, The

1977

Michael Cimino

1.49%

=

E.T.

1982

Steven Spielberg

1.49%

82

To Be or Not To Be

1942

Ernst Lubitsch

1.48%

83

City Lights

1931

Charles Chaplin

1.47%

84

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

2000

Jonas Mekas

1.01%

=

Ascent, The

1976

Larisa Shepitko

1.01%

=

Before the Rain

1994

Milcho Manchevski

1.01%

=

Being There

1979

Hal Ashby

1.01%

=

Carrie

1976

Brian de Palma

1.01%

=

Christine

1937

Julien Duvivier

1.01%

=

City of Sadness, A

1989

Hsiao-hsien Hou

1.01%

=

Cyclo

1995

Tran Anh Hung

1.01%

=

Dancer in the Dark

2000

Lars von Trier

1.01%

=

Days of Being Wild

1990

Wong Kar Wai

1.01%

=

D'est

1993

Chantal Akerman

1.01%

=

Diary

1983

David Perlov

1.01%

=

Double Indemnity

1944

Billy Wilder

1.01%

=

Empire

1964

Andy Warhol

1.01%

=

Europa 51

1952

Roberto Rossellini

1.01%

=

Exorcist, The

1973

William Friedkin

1.01%

=

Exotica

1994

Atom Egoyan

1.01%

=

F for Fake

1975

Orson Welles

1.01%

=

Floating Weeds

1959

Ozu Yasujirô

1.01%

=

Frankenstein

1931

James Whale

1.01%

=

Freaks

1932

Tod Browning

1.01%

=

Golden Thread, The

1965

Ritwik Ghatak

1.01%

=

Goodbye, South, Goodbye

1996

Hou Hsiao-hsien

1.01%

=

Gummo

1997

Harmony Korine

1.01%

=

Hannah and Her Sisters

1986

Woody Allen

1.01%

=

Harold and Maude

1971

Hal Ashby

1.01%

=

Head-On

2003

Fatih Akin

1.01%

=

How to be Loved

1962

Wojciech Has

1.01%

=

Hud

1962

Martin Ritt

1.01%

=

Idiots, The

1998

Lars von Trier

1.01%

=

Insect Woman, The

1963

Imamura Shohei

1.01%

=

Kramer vs. Kramer

1979

Robert Benton

1.01%

=

Ladies Man, The

1961

Jerry Lewis

1.01%

=

Lady from Shanghai, The

1947

Orson Welles

1.01%

=

Last Movie, The

1971

Dennis Hopper

1.01%

=

Lovers on the Bridge, The

1991

Leos Carax

1.01%

=

Match Factory Girl, The

1990

Aki Kaurismaki

1.01%

=

Moment of Innocence, A

1995

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

1.01%

=

Moulin Rouge

2001

Baz Luhrmann

1.01%

=

My Friend Ivan Lapshin

1986

Aleksey German

1.01%

=

Mysteries of Lisbon

2010

Raúl Ruiz

1.01%

=

Near Death

1989

Frederick Wiseman

1.01%

=

Night at the Opera, A

1935

Sam Wood

1.01%

=

Ossessione

1943

Luchino Visconti

1.01%

=

Pawnbroker, The

1964

Sydney Lumet

1.01%

=

Performance

1970

Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg

1.01%

=

Piano Teacher, The

2001

Michael Haneke

1.01%

=

Portrait of Ga

1952

Margaret Tait

1.01%

=

Possession

1981

Andrzej Zulawski

1.01%

=

Punch-Drunk Love

2002

Paul Thomas Anderson

1.01%

=

Quince Tree Sun, The

1992

Víctor Erice

1.01%

=

Raising Arizona

1987

Joel & Ethan Coen

1.01%

=

Roma

1972

Federico Fellini

1.01%

=

Ryan's Daughter

1970

David Lean

1.01%

=

Satyricon

1969

Federico Fellini

1.01%

=

Scarface

1932

Howard Hawks

1.01%

=

Scorpio Rising

1964

Kenneth Anger

1.01%

=

Secret Sunshine

2007

Lee Chang-dong

1.01%

=

Short Cuts

1993

Robert Altman

1.01%

=

Silent Light

2007

Carlos Reygadas

1.01%

=

Simon of the Desert

1965

Luis Buñuel

1.01%

=

Some Came Running

1958

Vincente Minnelli

1.01%

=

Star is Born, A

1954

George Cukor

1.01%

=

Swedish Love Story, A

1970

Roy Andersson

1.01%

=

Swimmer, The

1968

Frank Perry

1.01%

=

Take the Money and Run

1969

Woody Allen

1.01%

=

Teorema

1968

Pier Paolo Pasolini

1.01%

=

Trainspotting

1995

Danny Boyle

1.01%

=

Valentin de las Sierras

1967

Bruce Baillie

1.01%

=

We Won't Grow Old Together

1972

Maurice Pialat

1.01%

=

Weather Diary 3

1988

George Kuchar

1.01%

=

Wild at Heart

1990

David Lynch

1.01%

It is probably just a coincidence that the films that older voters like more than younger voters have an average year of 1957 and that the films that younger voters like much more than older voters have an average year of 1977.